Gothic

By: Brittany Prager, Nico Bellante, Zach Mastrovich, and Jack Kerry

Vocabulary

• Rose Window– A circular stained glass window

• Lancet– A tall, narrow window ending in a pointed arch

• Bar Tracery– The stained glass windows fill almost the entire opening

and the stonework is unobtrusive,• Fan Vault– A characteristic of English perpendicular Gothic

architecture in which radiating ribs form a fanlike pattern

French Gothic

Notre Dame, 1180-1200Paris, FranceGothic•Northern view of the cathedral, the side where the flying buttresses are visible.•Buttresses helped the cathedral counter the outward thrust caused by the nave vaults holding up the nave walls.

Amiens Cathedral, began in 1220Amiens, FranceGothic•Extravagant jamb statues on either sides of the doors.•Contains vaults which elevate to a height of over 140 feet.

French Gothic Continued

Belleville Breviary, 1325Artist- Jean PucelleParis, France•Fully modeled figures with a convincing perspective reveal his study of contemporary painting in Italy•Pucelle was also a very close observer of plants and fauna

Reims Cathedral, 1225-1290Reims, FranceGothic•One of the largest Gothic churches.•Immense Jamb statues on the sides of the doors.

Chartres Cathedral, 1220Chartres, FranceGothic•This is the famous West Façade of the Cathedral.•The two towers are different designs because, often times during the construction of these Cathedrals would take so long that the style would change mid-construction.

French GothicContinued

Rose Window from Chartres Cathedral, 1220Chartres, FranceGothic•Stained-glass windows are almost Synonymous with Gothic Architecture. •Abbot Suger called this light, Lux Nova

Holy Roman Empire

Ekkehard and Uta, 1249-1255Naumburg Cathedral, GermanyGothic• The period costumes and the individualized features of these donor portraits give the impression that they posed for their statues and lived long before the sculptures time•Attached to columns and stand beneath architectural canopies

Virgin with the Dead Christ, 1300-1325Rheinisches, GermanyGothic•Virgin grieving over the distorted dead body of Christ reflects the widespread troubles of the 14th century•This work shows German interest in emotional imagery

Saint-Maclou Cathedral, 1500-1514Rouen, FranceGothic•Has immense flying buttresses to support one main and large tower. •Represents a departure from High Gothic, to late Gothic using the Flamboyant style.

Gothic Cathedral